Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth WinslowPublish date:2009-05-01Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811218313ISBN-10:811218317UPC:9780811218313Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Memoirs, WomenSize:8.70 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.8Product ID:SCK3MHAE1P
Mikhail writes: "Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand."
The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi poet-peers and friends, her job as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, and culminates with the birth of her daughter Larsa.
The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi poet-peers and friends, her job as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, and culminates with the birth of her daughter Larsa.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811218313ISBN-10:811218317UPC:9780811218313Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Memoirs, WomenSize:8.70 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.8Product ID:SCK3MHAE1P
Mikhail, Dunya: - Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to the United States thirty years later in 1995. After graduating from the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. New Directions published her books The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea, and The War Works Hard--chosen as one the New York Public Library's Books to Remember in 2005--as well as her edited volume, 15 Iraqi Poets. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Knights Foundation grant, a Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, and works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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